Andy Jenkins, Brad Fallon, Ben Suarez and the Entrepreneur's life...

[gjabiz]

First off...I don't know either Brad or Andy (I do know Ben). I've watched them over the years take the Entrepreneur Bull by the horns and build a wildly successful company...although I couldn't tell you what StomperNet is or what it does, I have heard the term here. I'm totally clueless about it. However,

The point I'd like to make today is about choosing your Entrepreneurial LIFESTYLE. Some guys like Brad and Andy build businesses with staff and payroll and it comes with it's own headaches and worries, but with incredible financial rewards. I guess they (Andy and Brad) had or have dozens of employees.

Then guys like Ben Suarez build BIG companies, he has over 500 employees and does over 250,000,000 a year in business. Ben started out with his brother Rick as a "PARTNER" and it quickly became a fist fight (as a former Partner in business, I understand the territory)...and Ben and Rick split and they both built huge companies doing over 100 million a year...partnerships can be great, or they can be bothersome.

When I first came on the Internet I already had 10 years of online selling experience under my belt on the old computer parts and pieces bulletin boards...and my first ebook (around 1994) was great spam stuff. Anyhow,

I came on the Net as a "small potatoes" little dog who likes to "fly low and collect the dough" with NO interest in building a huge company or having employees or anything like that...and this is what is so sweet about YOUR opportunities today.

YOU too can grow a big business if you want, you can replicate the success of a John Reese or Yanik Silver or a Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins or even grow as big or bigger than Ben Suarez...OR you can choose to build a lifestyle business that satisfies your financial needs and fulfills your creative urges too.

So I again offer up my favorite "lifestyle" business people to give you some OPTIONS to think about while you are growing your business.

OFFLINE, no one, in my opinion, does better than Harvey Brody, who is a one man band with a little help from his wife and daughter and operates an International multi-million dollar business with a telephone and a fax machine and a few emails a day. He calls his business a "TOLL POSITION" business where his 150 or so customers (like Sears, WalMart, ACE Hardware, etc.) send him direct deposits for products he controls. He is a virtual manufacturer, never touches product or ships or anything, basically he shuffles papers on his desk.

And he has been doing this for over 50 years. My opinion, the PERFECT business.

ONLINE, I like Bill Myers and Marlon Sanders. Marlon works a few hours a week NOW, but I remember him from the early tests of AOL and CompuServe and he worked his butt off to get where he is today.

Bill Myers works iwth his wife and has a great "model" of a small one man business that supports a lifestyle of his choice. It is the best 10 bux a month you can spend, to join Bill's web site, the archives alone are worth tens of thousands of dollars in education.

There are many Warriors who have hit paydirt and struck gold with their hard efforts to get the ball rolling. On any given day you can find them here quietly going about their businesses.

It is wonderful, this Internet and the marketing, money-making opportunities you have.

AND we can learn from guys like Andy and Brad who are successful and hit the normal speed bumps that come with partnerships and growth and building something big and lasting. It is still the great American dream and the world's dream too.

So think about where you want to go with your business. And take Harvey Brody's advice, which he told a group of seminar attendees 35 years ago (Gary Halbert, Ben Suarez, Joe Karbo, Joe Sugarman, Bud Weckesser, Jay Abraham, to name a few who learned from Harvey Brody)...SPIDOG.

Solver Your Problems in the Direction of your GOALS. Big or small.

550+ employees or one man bands. High profile or "fly low" types.

There is whatever you want to make it online and with the Warriors Group here and the WAR ROOM too, you have all the information you may ever need to achieve your little slice of UTOPIA, whatever that means to you.

Gordon Jay Alexander

PS. Some of you War Room members are even profiting from my FREE report (for War Room members) on HOTSHEETS, the perfect little part-time publishing business.

Good luck to Brad and Andy in their new and separate ventures...and Ben, he doesn't need any more luck but I wish him continued success too.

[mikestenger]

GR8 post Gordon. Most people don't realize these different opportunities or ways. They get so worked up in the day to day, they only see this or that way.

[Lance K]

Well said, Gordon.

Your posts are always a great read!

[Ram]

Great post. You know, Ben and Gary Halbert used to be partners, too. Ben is truly one of the mail order greats.

[Bruce NewMedia]

Thanks for that Gordon!...Ben Suarez's "7 Steps To Freedom" was one of the best direct marketing books I ever read. ...just awesome.
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Bruce

[Ross Bowring]

Gordon. Great post. Thank you.